Mayor bowser good afternoon, everybody. I am muriel bowser, mayor of washington, d. C. I am joined by members of my administration, the chief of police and the city administrator. We are here today to provide an district response to protests in the district overnight and yesterday. I want to start by saying we certainly recognize and outragee with the people feel following the killing in minneapolis last week. Thate certainly empathize the killing of george floyd was not the first and people were expressing outrage and demanding action. We also recognize that we are proud of our city and we do not destroyed. Ty to be so, police and firefighters and members of the Public Safety team for washington, d. C. , along with our federal partners have been working to make sure people can exercise their First Amendment rights while not destroying washington, d. C. I would just be chief of police mpdsvide an update on actions and then we will take your questions. Thank you, mayor bowser. I have to
Annually Fund National parks and public land maintenance. The Government Affairs committee holds a hearing on government buying and distribution strategies in response to covid19. President trump met with Law Enforcement officials amid protests over George Floyds death. The president said he does not or dismantlingng the police, adding his view that 99 of Police Officers are great people. Law enforcement officials spoke about progress made in kernel justice reform, and the need for law and order. Pres. Trump thank you very much, it is an honor to have Law Enforcement, they have enforced the laws. They have done a fantastic job. We had among the best numbers we have ever had in terms of recorded history. This has been a strong year for less crime. Reason for less crime. We had great Law Enforcement. I am proud of them. Crime. We had great Law Enforcement. I am proud of them. There wont be defunding or dismantling of our police. There will not be any disbanding of our police. The police
In the head. It was not even frontpage news. There was nobody demonstrating like this. Children in black six months killed on our streets. No one is demonstrating about that. No one is having discussions about what we can do to combat it. Officerwhite police shoots one black person and we know the name of that person, memorials are developed for them, and they become the cause of a movement to solve the problem. I am just asking for some proportionality. Lets put our time and energy focused on the largest problem we have, and that is those deaths internally. There is nothing white people can do externally to help us. It is a problem internal to us. We must address it. But in order to address that, we have to acknowledge the importance of it. Right now, it does not seem to be important. The only time we get upset is when a white person takes a black persons life. Host we will hear from doreen. Shes in massachusetts. Caller when i watched the video of george floyd, i was totally disguste
We need justice. We need systemic change. First, we need to save our city. President trump weighs in. We have our military willing and ready and able. My guest is keith ellison. Atlanta mayor, washington, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and florida congresswoman val demming. Its put more than 40 million out of work as much of the country is trying to return to some form of normalcy often ignoring social distancing. You see no fear. We are embracing it. Prompting fears of a second wave. Every community is one wild weekend from falling off the cliff. Joining me is msnbc anchor joshua johnson. Maria teresa kumar and pat mccrory of north. Welcome to sunday. A special edition of meet the press. Good sunday morning. America is waking up to two crisis. One is so new its called the novel coronavirus. The second institutional racism is with us for some 400 years. Overnight protests in dozens of cities across this country. Anger erupting over Police Brutality over africanamericans. Most demonstrations
Today, but you are absolutely correct. We have ebbed away in the last few hours or so. The events over the weekend are absolutely extraordinary, and they are original and unique versus other times of unrest in this nation. Gatesan and the of the and the events of the weeks to come will be remarkable as well. The equity market is totally unchanged at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. As we count people down to that payrolls report this coming friday, we are approaching 20 unemployment. Tom my calculation over the weekend from research 18 s is 70 to unemployment, and the model above that other people who get 2 21 to to 22 unemployment. Americans, unemployment could be 30 . Lisa theres a tension right now between improving Economic Data and the backdrop that is really bleak of rising Unemployment Rates that have decimated certain communities. Today, are looking at ism manufacturing data at 10 00 a. M. Wall street time. People looking for any signs of improvement underneath that. Then there is the ecb c